''The White Monk'' (Spanish:''El monje blanco'') is a 1945 Mexican

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directed and co-written by Julio Bracho and starring

María Félix María de los Ángeles Félix Güereña (; 8 April 1914 – 8 April 2002) was a Mexican actress and singer. Along with Pedro Armendáriz and Dolores del Río, she was one of the most successful figures of Latin American cinema in the 1940s and ...

, Tomás Perrín and

Julio Villarreal Julio Villarreal (7 November 1885 – 4 August 1958) was a Spanish actor who later settled and worked in Mexico. He also directed two films in the early 1930s.Taibo p.155 Born as Julio Crochet i Martínez Villarreal in Madrid to a family of theat ...

.Taibo p.138 The film's sets were designed by the

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Jorge Fernandez. It is set in Italy in the thirteenth century.

Cast

as Gálata Orsina * Tomás Perrín as Conde Hugo del Saso / Fray Paracleto *

as Sacerdote * Paco Fuentes as Capolupo * Consuelo Guerrero de Luna as Condesa Próspera Huberta * María Douglas as Mina Amanda * José Pidal as Fray Matías *

Manuel Noriega Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno ( , ; February 11, 1934 – May 29, 2017) was a Panamanian dictator and military officer who was the ''de facto'' List of heads of state of Panama, ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially serv ...

* Fanny Schiller * Felipe Montoya as Marco Leone * Ángel T. Sala as Montero *

José Elías Moreno José Elías Moreno (12 November 1910 – 15 July 1969) was a Mexican character actor. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1937 and 1969. He was from the state of Jalisco. His José Elías Moreno Jr., son of the same name, born in 1956 ...

* Ernesto Alonso as Fray Can * Marta Elba as Anabella * Alejandro Cobo as Bertone * Manolo Fábregas as Piero * María Gentil Arcos as Peregrina * Paco Martinez as Peregrino

References

Bibliography

* Paco Ignacio Taibo. ''María Félix: 47 pasos por el cine''. Bruguera, 2008.

External links

* 1945 films 1940s historical drama films Mexican historical drama films 1940s Spanish-language films Films directed by Julio Bracho Films set in the 13th century Films set in Italy Mexican black-and-white films 1945 drama films 1940s Mexican films Films scored by Raúl Lavista Spanish-language historical drama films {{1940s-Mexico-film-stub